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Why Trump's Metal Tariffs Won't Lead to the All-American iPhone
You need aluminum to make an iPhone, but Trump's 25 percent tariff shouldn't directly affect the price.
The US tariffs on aluminum and steel affect raw materials, not finished products or processed components, and we already know that the almost no phones from Samsung or Apple are manufactured or assembled in the United States—something Trump could be trying to influence. Around 80 percent of the world's phones are made in China, and while Apple has moved some of its manufacturing and assembly to India, millions of iPhones are still produced by Foxconn in factories in Shenzhen and Zhengzhou. If this stuff isn’t made in America, you have to question whether you can really have a phone that is as US-made as Trump might want—even if Apple was to make the bold step of opening an iPhone assembly plant within the United States.
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